Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Paul Richard

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Larry Price

Great teachers like those we honor this evening got us here, and they will continue to lead the way, ... That only one can be chosen Teacher of the Year is a classic example of overcrowding. We have so many worthy candidates and only one spot to fill.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

Sophia Amoruso

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

David Lagercrantz

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

Jacques Barzun

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,

Koichiro Matsuura

For scientific achievements to serve the most possible people, scientists should work in a responsible way, with respect for cultural diversity, personal freedom and human dignity,

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

John Bell

One of their specialties is restoration. I'd say two-thirds to three-quarters of their work is in cultural venues, and a lot of them have been historic properties.

Daniel Renouard

I would put little credibility in it. It would be expensive and the cultural differences are pretty big.

Chad Kroeger

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Madeline Albright

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Debbie Horne

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Jacob Frenkel

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

E. P. Thompson

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

Brandon Gray

This is a real snub for moviegoers. This is not necessarily about quality -- this is purely political.

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Hugo Papstein

We did some engineering stuff a year ago, and we are doing a little formatting and engineering research now.

Mike Daly

We've done our research and we think that it's OK.

John Henderson

We do all those things (site research) but not on such a formalized basis. Even responding to this (contract bid) was a project.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Adrian Aucoin

We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.

Leslie Williams

We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5. That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing.

Darren Criss

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

Duncan Fletcher

If you take a risky single and get run out, you would be frustrated.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Howard Struletz

When you put all that together, it's a pretty wide shopping experience.

Dean Ornish

The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.

Elinor Lipman

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Fergus Henderson

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

Banksy

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,

A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

Chita Rivera

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Cathy Guisewite

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.