Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

Lee Huenecke

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

Ann Thomas

We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say,

Gary Woods

We started talking and half-jokingly, I think, I asked if he would be in (the movie), and he said 'Yeah, I could do that,'

Luis Walter Alvarez

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Liane Balaban

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Chris Cain

We actually got it from a guy that works at a U-Haul truck place in Berkeley. He thought that the three of us all looked very similar to one anotherwe all had on glassesand he asked whether we were all brothers and we said no and he asked whether we were all scientists. We said that we were not, but that was the theme of the name.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Bruce Gordon

Since 2001, investors have witnessed some dramatic changes, but the last three quarters suggest a stable and relatively high level of confidence in long-term savings and investment plans. Since this index was launched seven years ago, it's suggested Canadians are generally committed to investing even through some major international incidents, market swings and more recently higher energy prices.

Stockwell Day

The fact of the matter is that there was no definitive plan to remove Canadians before Katrina hit and now there are Canadians stranded and fighting for their lives,

Brandon Jay McLaren

I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

Justin Trudeau

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

Justin Trudeau

I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.

Wilfrid Laurier

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Samuel Bodman

With the Reserve fully operational, we will be able to start delivering this oil as soon as tomorrow,

Dan Netto

When (the reservoir) is full, it is better for everyone ? better for recreation, fishing, water storage, generating power, delivering water to farmers.

Alan Mak

Some new actors are focused on whether they do a good job delivering their lines when they're acting, but scenes without dialogue are harder because you have no lines to portray that you're doing something. Jay Chou didn't have this problem. There were a lot of scenes without dialogue in the movie, but he has a very strong imagination. He would try to figure out what's the situation now.

Gayle Lynds

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

Stephanie Hall

We have really heavily invested our staff in delivering Flumist in the school system and we were going to be stretched kind of thin to be delivering inactivated vaccine at exactly the same time,

Jim Kelly

We have refocused the organization on delivering more to the membership. Today we are less about being an engine for revenue for events and more about increased value for our members through services that respond to our members' needs.

Richard Moore

Today's announcement is all about delivering new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools,

Chance Patterson

XM is unique because we have hundreds of programmers delivering millions of songs plus live news, live sports and talk directly to subscribers.

Jim Padilla

One thing I am looking forward to is laying this out and getting all of our people focused on delivering this piece of what we have to do. This speculation does not help us with our unions and our people in the development centers,

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Ries

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Alan Grayson

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

Alan Colmes

If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.

Alan Arkin

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

Al Sharpton

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Amy Poehler

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Anthony Jeselnik

I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.