Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Gerald McKelvey

Many other tenants also lost people, and they did not force us to go to this extent to collect.

Sathya Baba

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.

Donald Rumsfeld

My hope is that they do get it done in good time and to the extent it requires adjustments later, obviously that can be done,

William Adams

Given the extent of the rise the level of the pull-back seems to be fairly minimal and after consolidating the up trends are likely to push prices higher still.

Deborah White

The primary uncertainty right now is the extent of damage, and headlines there will go straight into prices.

Jim Johnstone

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

Donald Smithburg

should tour the facility so he can see for himself the extent of the damage.

Shawn Johnson

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

Ben Carson

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Gustavo Kuerten

My goal now is to be fully recovered and to be in great shape I need, at least, six weeks of intense work,

Janne Niinimaa

Obviously those names are not at the level of the names we lost, if you look at them on paper, ... But they are fully qualified.

Jeff Bagwell

For so long, it's been, 'OK, he's playing first base. Don't even worry about him in spring training. But it's a different story now, and I fully understand that. That part has been a little weird for me, but that's the way it is right now.

Raymond Kelly

fully executed ... so it's possible there could be more arrests.

Mahmoud Abbas

fully accounted for and used in the way it was intended.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97% back now, ... It is very hard. ... Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I'm fully recovered, yeah.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Robin Wright

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

David Bass

Learning is like weightlifting. No burn, no learn.

Boris Vallejo

Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for,

Eric Kandel

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

John Burns

My 90-year-old mother has used a similar voting system in Austin, Texas, and she hasn't had a problem in learning how to vote with it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Joss Whedon

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.