Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Clinton

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

Mark Twain

Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle

James Hoffa

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,

Stephen Colbert

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Eroll Skyers

He's a shadow of himself. His speech is slurred. He lost fifty pounds. He was found hanging in his cell. He was found seriously hurt and hanging.

Frank Johnson

Forty-five thousand seats is not enough. Fifty thousand to 52,000 would be enough for a New York stadium.

Benito Mussolini

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

David Bowie

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

Chuck Palahniuk

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Kenneth Tynan

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

William Shakespeare

Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Skip Rimer

Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing.

Joe Thornton

We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.

Eugene Delacroix

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Bill Dreher

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

Cynthia Payne

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Vivian Stanshall

Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.

Alfred Adler

I have taken forty years to make my psychology simple. I might say all neurosis is vanity - but this also might not be understood.

John Lasseter

Stay at the end of the credits. I pulled out the stops on the credits.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

David Aebischer

That's the way it is. You just have to play well and don't give him a reason to pull you.

Jimmy Williams

I was out there fumbling the ball, and you just can't do that. We pulled it out (Saturday), but that just can't happen.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!