Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

James Weldon Johnson

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Rocco Buttiglione

We request ... the return of all the material that proves to have come from the illegal market,

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Alexander Woollcott

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Robin Cook

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Deborah Fallows

Web surfing has kind of taken its rightful place as a routine activity. It's not necessarily a time killer, but a time filler.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Edward Abbey

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Jamie Moyer

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Brittany Snow

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.