Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Robertson

Let the people of Yugoslavia be quite clear, ... The bombing can end at any time. It's in Milosevic's hands, and he knows our conditions, which are reasonable and sensible, and nothing less than full compliance will do.

Maria Ressa

Given the fact that the Marriott hotel bombing happened two days ago, all of Indonesia is looking to see what type of signal is being sent from here,

Richard Engel

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

Madeline Albright

If this fails because both parties say no, there will not be bombing of Serbia and we will try to figure out ways of trying to deal with both sides,

Stephen Jones

If this should turn out to be about John Doe No. 2, I think it is far from clear that the Oklahoma City bombing case has reached a conclusion in federal court.

George Galloway

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.

Walter Kirn

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Stuart Symington

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Billy Graham

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Tracy Morgan

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

Gallagher

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Don Rickles

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Frank Caliendo

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

Jeff Ross

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Robert H. Connelly

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Marc Lipsitch

If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductions are also likely.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Randy Messenger

If we're playing well, they may not make many moves. If they're not playing great, they likely will make some moves. I feel like they are going to play great.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Sam Stovall

If they don't do it tomorrow, they will likely do it in January.

David Martin

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.