Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

Polling is not allowed. That?s an attempt to formulate public policy. It?s obvious that would be an attempt to circumvent the law.

Personally, I see the need for it. Their attempt is to get closer to where they need to be.

My teammates did their best to help but our plans were blown up in the final kilometers by escape attempts by cyclist of rival teams. Filippo is a good cyclist and deserved victory. I'm sorry for missing a second straight triumph here. I just lacked a bit of good luck.

Lafcadio Hearn

Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

One of the main reasons for the lottery scholarships was an attempt to stem the tide of many of the best high school students in South Carolina leaving the state. Clearly that is working.

I was so glad to see Gina get it tonight. What's impressed me most about her is how she got it. She always put the team first and was never selfish in an attempt to get her points. She's a true team player.

Mr Blairs attempt at Gleneagles to start a climate change partnership with the developing world, or at least initiate a dialogue, is vital.

Meat packers have suffered the worst sustained losses in history, and I would not be surprised by any decisions that are made. Having said that, the major companies are doing their utmost to attempt to tweak their existing operations.

Marguerite Young

My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions.

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

My first attempt at the Dakar Rally ended with a seat in a helicopter and I never wanted to be in that position again. I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round team. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.

John Legend

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

P. J. O'Rourke

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

One of the things we have tried to do wherever possible is to attempt to make everything as consistent as we can. There are good sides and bad sides to that. We can't make everything the same because this is a big state, but we wanted to make the starting dates more consistent for the convenience of the hunters.

One should not attempt to buy private loyalty with public money.

Bill Thompson

One out of four people who attempt the summit die. We've only got four people on our expedition -- those aren't very good odds.

One of the attractive things for us is that our local drivers are going to be able to step up and be able to attempt to get in a more prestigious race. That was a big positive for us in making the decision to bring them here.

No one in the region should have to worry about attempting to file government documents in near-impossible circumstances,

Benjamin Bratt

My first and only attempt ended up with me smacking myself in the back of the head. I left it to the professionals.

John Desmond Bernal

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

What we know now from our initial police investigation is that the suicide bomber made some attempt to disguise his appearance. From what we saw from our forensics team ... is that he bleached his hair,

Henry Hyde

The only purpose for this being dredged up now is an obvious attempt to intimidate me, and it won't work,

Dom Capers

I believe we have our most talented group. We have attempted to stay consistent in following the plan. We have improved each season and I think this will be the most competitive team we've had.

I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.

Samuel Butler

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so

I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.

Peter Clarke

I am the decision-maker on this project. I have had no attempt from the outside to influence my decision.

I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can see right through these kinds of attempts to trick them.

Sean Cunningham

Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security; he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist).