Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.

Phil Hardberger

Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.

Edward Kennedy

major breakthrough in our effort to give senior citizens the prescription drug coverage under Medicare they need and deserve.

Christopher Bond

Let's honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families by working hard to protect our citizens and our country.

Gene Luen Yang

Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

Teresa de Lauretis

Many Italians today refer to themselves as citizens of a Third World country, which they are in many ways, not simply economically.

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Wade Estep

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Wendy Kopp

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Italo Calvino

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Jess Walter

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Gabrielle Giffords

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

Terry Anderson

Selling public lands can help reduce the drain on the treasury and give us benchmarks to compare private with public management.

Schuyler Fisk

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Dan Gilroy

One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

Geno Auriemma

Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team than Diana has meant to this group of kids. So if you want to compare them to Diana, they fall short, but so does everybody else.

Carl Yankowski

Of course, one million compared with Palm's 15 million makes its own statement. Who do you want to party with?

John Phillips

My first impression, as compared to four years ago, is that there's a lot more stuff and more lab equipment here. Plus there's also been an accumulation of spare parts, as well as trash, that hasn't been able to come back.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

Ron Orlosky

Basically, she had a pretty rough time of it. She was always in and out of the hospital.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Halston Sage

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

Chauncey Billups

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

Edy Ganem

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Jarvis Herring

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Drew Goddard

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,