Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

Robert Long

We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you think if the Fed is hinting that interest rates will go up sooner, that suggests the economy is doing well? I think the comments bode well for the GDP (gross domestic product) report tomorrow and next week's monthly employment report.

Peter Cardillo

Unless he should say something really out of the ordinary, which is unlikely, I think his comments will likely have a limited effect on stocks,

Adam Ereli

We're issuing this in the wake of some comments by President Chen in Taiwan that we don't want to be inflammatory or send the wrong signal, so we thought it useful to reiterate US policy on the subject.

Keke Palmer

Just as many people that love me, hate me, too. I get really mean, mean, mean, mean comments on Twitter, and it just comes with the territory.

Kumail Nanjiani

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

Jenna Morasca

Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

Tom Noonan

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Masaki Fukui

Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's focus is on inflation. The dollar remains strong.

Auguste Rodin

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Terry Crews

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Mike Holmgren

Next season, I would expect more from him. I'm always going to push the envelope a little bit, and I think he would expect more from himself.

Money Magazine

I think their latest issue pushed the envelope too far,

Richard Roeper

For those of us who follow this stuff, it's a lot of fun because for many years it seemed winners were preordained. This year there really is going to be that moment when they open the envelope and you're going to think, I don't know what they are going to say .

Clifton Fadiman

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Carlyle Thayer

This trial provoked interest on the part of the press, which pushed the envelope of free inquiry to meet public interest. The matter was so sensitive the press was reined in by authorities who put a lid on coverage.

Elliott Sadler

Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty or what have you, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the line and push the envelope a lot come Sunday.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Fernando Ferrer

I think this is the most indecent thing I have seen in my public life that spans 25 years.

Howard Stern

You've got to be kidding me, ... How am I indecent in Miami, but I'm not indecent in (Fort Myers)?

Edwin Moses

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

John Stone

We want to be different. We want to be strange and we don't want jocks or other people putting (us) down. ... We're going to punish you.

Anna Pavlova

Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.

Angie Martinez

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

S. Walker

We knew we had to go in (the water) and stripped down to our jocks and shorts.

Deryck Whibley

Preps and jocks suck we don't wear your Abercrombie so don't listen to our punk rock!

Christine Pelosi

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

H. L. Mencken

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

Simone Elkeles

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Chloe Sevigny

The media loves negative spin.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

David Nail

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Edmond Rostand

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Edward Kennedy

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

Bess Myerson

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Charles Hodge

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Bob Hawke

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Barbara Tuchman

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Albert Einstein

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Abel Ferrara

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Craig Fugate

We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Heather Stephens

She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Diane Kruger

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

Mark Badgley

So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.