Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Richard Parks Bland

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Mary Gordon

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Marguerite Blessington

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society

Dick Umile

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Russell Feingold

Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?

Cardinal Zen

My impression is that they've entered into real talks.

Sunder Rajan

None of these things like welfare even entered our minds, ... Whatever we eat, she is going to have her share. Whatever roof we have, she will have.

Ma Huateng

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

Abdul Sattar

I can tell you with full responsibility that the hijackers have not entered Pakistan.

Kim Clijsters

If being the year-end number one was my main goal, I would have entered more tournaments. If it happens, great. If it doesn't, that's not going to make my year worse.

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

Kofi Annan

New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.

William T. Vollmann

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

Robert Jarvik

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Rohit Shetty

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Mark Williams

Luckily, we have 10 or 12 who are going to have to step up more, which is important. Obviously, we have a lot of finals experience in our side, and it's important for them to step up.

Diego Klattenhoff

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

Estelle

Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

Dan Fee

Lynn Swann doesn't have any experience and he doesn't have any policy proposals for the future, so he's left with attacks.

Nishi Silva

Life experience provides us feedback of our lives.On the other hand,trying to become an experienced person puts you in danger.We should let our selves get experience by the time only when your life is ready to provide it on the right time with the right people.

Jerry Sloan

Let them experience a day off in there, and see if they can keep themselves ready. It's important to see if any of them try to take the third game off.

John Foxe

Last year was our first opportunity (to be on MNF) in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Malorie Blackman

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Josie Bissett

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Cook

She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,

William Fonville

When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Guillaume Salluste

My lovely living Boy,My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.

Kelly Shackelford

Newspapers are embarrassing themselves and showing themselves to be irrelevant; it shows people living in two different worlds.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Christy Turlington

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Andrea Roth

When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.

John Abraham

If they're living in the past, they're living in the past.

Ken Bowersox

If they need us to stay a year, that's fine. We like living on the space station, and we feel comfortable that we have a way home.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know who wrote that, but it's bull. You can quote me on that. Just like I was run out of St. Louis, that's ... people make a living on speculation. They're an embarrassment to the media.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Carson McCullers

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Mark Aaron

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

David Foster Wallace

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

Mick Jagger

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Theo James

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.

Noah Baumbach

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Kathy Miles

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Alexander Wang

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Carlo Ancelotti

Lyon is a very strong team with solid organization. We put them under a lot of pressure but they responded well. I wouldn't say we have the advantage, I think it is still 50-50.

Tim Duncan

Now we've got the pressure on them, down two games. Now we've got to go into Arco and really get this first one. That puts the ultimate pressure -- elimination -- on people.

Sidney Crosby

Obviously, this is a new level, but the pressure has always been there,

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Dennis Prager

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

Eleanor Roosevelt

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Eileen collins

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

Graeme Smith

If anything, they (Australia) have been under more pressure than us going into this test match.

Tubby Smith

I had tried to be more relaxed to take the pressure off, but that was not working. I went back to being myself and was much more demonstrative and vocal.

Tony Ierulli

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Chuck Eddy

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Chris Crutcher

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

John Huber

I get to make my own schedule, and I get a lot of studying done.

Nipsey Russell

He was always reading, always studying and was very, very quiet. He had a photographic memory.

Dan Brown

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Lance Reddick

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?