Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Brian Tracy

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.

Brian Tracy

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

Brian Tracy

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

Jane Jacobs

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

Jamie Dimon

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

Kirsten Gillibrand

America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.

Laurie Helgoe

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

Lea DeLaria

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.

Laurie Anderson

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Laurie Anderson

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.

Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers.

My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.

Kim Deal

I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.

Kim Deal

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Kim Deal

Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

Kim Jee-woon

America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.

Kenneth Noland

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

Kenneth Noland

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

Kenneth Noland

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

Ken Olsen

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Kelly Miller

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Kelly Miller

Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.

Kristin Hersh

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

Kitty Kelley

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

Krist Novoselic

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.