Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Joseph Kamotho

We want the President to take action now as the leader of the Government and not a few ministers to defend him.

Cindy Cohn

We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.

Jodie Bernstein

We want them to know that the borderless Internet marketplace is not a free zone. Together with our partners, we are putting get-rich-quick schemes on notice that we're monitoring the Web and that we intend to take law enforcement action against those that continue to make fraudulent or deceptive claims.

Janet Reno

We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,

Jan Egeland

We want to stay as long as we can. As we speak we have had to suspend action in many areas. Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance because it's too dangerous and it could grow exponentially.

Jesse Greener

We want to see the provincial government play more of a leadership role and not leaving the colleges, and the students especially, out to hang dry, and we need to see that action very quickly.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

Steve Mulvenon

We know families looking to relocate consider the quality of schools a critical factor in their decision-making.

Andrew Davies

Wales is delighted to be partnering with the state of Michigan, who we consider to be a leader in the ITS American arena. We see huge synergies between Michigan and Wales and look forward to further developing these opportunities.

David Seabury

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Michael Moriarty

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Bill Thompson

The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out.

Jim Cicconi

The point is the industry itself shouldn't be straddled with constraints that many of our direct competitors don't have. We feel the number 30 percent isn't really justified. It's very, very arbitrary. We consider a number around 40 percent to be more appropriate given the economics in the industry.

Chris Hanson

We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.

Michelle Clark

We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.

Naylond Hayes

When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Keith Miller

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

Ray Brown

We know we've got to play better offensively to continue in this tournament.

Levance Fields

We know he's going to be all right and we've just got to continue our game plan. We're a little sick right now. That's all it is. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out any worse than it is. But we can't just stop.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Terry Lanni

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

David Holmes

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Melissa Fleming

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Jayantha Dhanapala

We are all satisfied at the progress that has been made, and our report will be before the (U.N.) Security Council very shortly.

Sulejman Tihic

We feel that our relations have progressed so much that this form of inter-state council is no longer appropriate.

Dan Senor

We're hopeful that the deadline will be met. The Governing Council has given us every indication that it will.

Kierston Wareing

I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'

Laura Miller

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Jamal Ibrahim

We have proposed at the recent AU Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa the formation of a joint force.

Joseph Wu

If all non-legalized organizations are to be abolished, that should imply that the National Unification Council should be abolished too.

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

Jim Lites

We've waited years and years for this announcement to come. It's finally here. It's been years in the making, really starting in 1993 when we got here.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

Charles Taylor

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Charles de Lint

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

Charles Dickens

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Arlen Specter

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

Desi Arnaz

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Bill Nye

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Beth Moore

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Brian Eno

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Jessye Norman

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

Florentino Perez

I think our honorary president is going to stay with us for a long time to come.

Tom Johnson

Midland has always been about hand-shakes -- honoring verbal contracts.

Janne Darata

His mother said it would be wonderful to know we were honoring Mike and thinking of him.

E. B. White

This is his hometown. What better way of honoring him?

Bob Lewis

This is a veterans memorial. This is where Jackson honors its dead. This is the most meaningful place to be because we're honoring our dead.

Danny Meyer

Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

John Amos

I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.

Gitte Lindgaard

Unless the first impression is favorable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors.

Kim Fields

Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Sam Schmidt

Mr. el Hage didn't leave an impression when it took a year to talk about him to the government.

Chai Vang

I can't read people's minds, but my impression is that I feel pressure toward the Hmong,

Cecilia Bartoli

Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, until up to the throat and then outside... .and then you have to do this with every note.

Edward Walker

What we do on the show and real life are different, ... On the show we try to give the impression of what the room should be or could be.

Gerhard Schroeder

I even have the impression that we will be positively surprised.

Lindy Urso

I get the impression all of the defendants would like to work out a disposition prior to trial, but only a reasonable disposition.

Adam Eaton

I think they were surprised to see me go back out there. I was under the impression I was going three innings the whole time.

Don Samuel

We wanted very much to keep him alive. Jim wanted to learn very much about the appellate process and (have) another day in court.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Allan Houston

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.

Jim Buckley

I was Jim Sundberg, ... Oh, you remember him?

John Swofford

Jim Weaver and Seth Greenberg are to be commended for how they have addressed this issue.

Eric Karros

Jim Tracy is going to have some leverage this winter because there are going to be a number of openings,

John Dern

Jim thought 'world headquarters' implied a pretentiousness that wasn't appropriate.

Larry Coker

Kelly is so good, so unselfish, ... and that has been very, very encouraging to see the relationship that those two have.

Lisa Zentner

Kelly is amazing, the way she relates to the kids.

Christine LaBombard

Kelly has been here before. She didn't want her season to end.

Gary Frazier

He was sensitive and still is. Kelly has a lot of pride and reacts to perceived slights, but you have to remember that he was just 17 years old.

Thurman Thomas

I'm here for Hunter, I'm here for the Kelly family. There's no way I would miss this.

Kelly Monaco

Just because someone whines about losing enough, does not make them a winner. The viewers voted for Kelly last time and they will vote for Kelly this time.

Matt Strophy

Carly Noyes and Kelly Sutherland played great. Carly had nine of her 11 points in the second quarter.

Michael Buble

I don't know what to say. I feel like Kelly Clarkson a bit.

Ian Rush

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.

Nicolas Boileau

Be a mason instead, if you have a talent for that.

Dave Thomas

There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.

Mo Rocca

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

William Howard Taft

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Marianne Bichsel

I will say the mayor was very disappointed.

Jerrold Nadler

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

Charlie Morris

He is a mayor for all the people.

Gregg Harris

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

David Gudgel

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Steve Hahn

There are no limos in the garage. Any money AARP makes will get plowed back into the services our members want.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Bruce Bochy

We're going to play Mike as much as we can.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Jon Gruden

Mike Tomlin is a candidate, obviously, in Minnesota.

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

John Shirreffs

Mike said he was waiting for the call.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Floyd Burnsed

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.

Charlie Chaplin

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Dana Stabenow

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

Jim Balsillie

Settlement has never been an option to date.

Richard Lobb

So far, we've not seen any impact, but we're reviewing our options to see what we need to do to keep it that way.

Jerry Brown

She can be the reserve option for California,

David Shore

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

Brian Rust

We're pretty sure that because of the upgrade, this quirky, little-used option didn't work.

Art Hogan

I think we need to get through the options expiration tomorrow,

Chris Pronger

I think anything is a realistic option at this stage, We can't rule anything out in the future.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

Burton

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

John Izzo

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Ann Coulter

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

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.

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.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

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.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

David Allen

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Buddy Rice

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Ava Gardner

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood

Allen Ginsberg

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Anthony Hopkins

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Sorin Cerin

Sunset is the wail of Time and sunrise is its smile.

Muddy Waters

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Jeannette Walls

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

John Muir

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.