Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dee Dee Myers

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Zab Judah

I did not hit Floyd Mayweather low on purpose. I'm not a dirty fighter.

Elena Satine

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

Dionne Warwick

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

David Nicholls

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Aaron Hill

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Matthew Caws

I was sad when I knew I was going to have to make this record a little more obscure and a little harder to get. Just because, otherwise, I would have been airing my dirty laundry, which I don't see any point in.

Mike Knuble

If we're guilty of anything, it's not getting all our pucks on goal. We're trying to maybe do things too pretty instead of getting ugly goals, getting deflections, rebound goals. Not tic-tac-toe goals around the net. That's not where we're going to be successful. We've got to try and score more dirty goals.

John Wilhelm

Leaving the AFL-CIO has nothing to do with saving money. It has to do with redirecting that money toward organizing.

John Wilhelm

Leaving the AFL-CIO has nothing to do with saving money, ... It has to do with redirecting that money toward organizing.

Robert Prestwood

Leaving that side in there would have been unsafe.

Tom Heckert

I feel like I'm leaving a U2 concert,

Todd Turner

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

Ivor Heerden

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

Justin Gray

If we're going to go, we're going to go down swinging -- leaving everything out there on the court.

Janet Napolitano

She said basically, 'Thank you for not leaving me. Thank you for not rushing the tower. They would have killed me,'

Mark Stahlman

Should Scott McNealy be leaving Sun Microsystems -- now?

Kofi Annan

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Tom Ditt

Less than a week after a major disaster and we're already putting people in housing. We think that's pretty remarkable.

Mark Rosenker

Learning to drive and being distracted is a recipe for disaster.

Irwin Redlener

Many people will be stressed and will require support over a long period of time and will be vulnerable to psychological problems. We know this from other disaster experiences.

Walter Maestri

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Robin Gurwitch

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Warren Rudman

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

Mantill Williams

One little natural disaster, a refinery fire, any type of instability in various parts of the world could push us over that edge.

Rajeev Dhawan

New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer.