Famous Quotes & Sayings

If an operator is undercapitalized to the extent that he can't pay his fines, he shouldn't be in business. You can bet he's skimping on safety.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country

I hate to say it, but maybe there's a bet that if Kerry wins, (former Secretary of the Treasury) Robert Rubin will take over as Fed chairman, and the market would like that.

I had people taking bets that (seeking more administrators) would be the first thing we would do.

Oprah Winfrey

I feel duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.

Chuck Schumer

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even really care, to be totally honest. I'm really concerned about the lineup. I know I'm not betting on getting any hits off him, I'm just trying to keep the game as close as I can to give my team a chance.

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

I didn't bet at that time in my life. I have no problem wagering on the game now.

John Davidson

I'd bet my life he never made a bet on sports. . . . When we traveled, guys were playing cards on the plane. He never did. He just doesn't do it.

E. B. White

I'd bet more than 50 percent of our players have a relative who played football here.

I'd bet 99 percent of the people in Naperville probably never heard of us.

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

My feeling is that in her mind that if she meets people, they expect her to jump up and sing and dance and they want to see the Betty Hutton from the '40s and she doesn't want to disappoint them.

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

Mark Calcavecchia

One birdie on the weekend and I win the tournament. I bet that's never happened. But only seven bogeys all week. A lot of guys probably made seven bogeys today.

Mark Calcavecchia

One birdie on the weekend and I win the tournament, ... I bet that's never happened. But only seven bogeys all week. A lot of guys probably made seven bogeys today.

Nobu Matsuhisa

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

October can be a difficult month, so I don't want to bet on October, ... But I don't think it will be terrible.

Of course, if you get David Von Erich, The Bruiser, and Bruiser Brody on a card, I'll bet that would draw!

None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter.

No one is willing to make a big bet two days in a row. That's typical of the year: We've had a lot of great days, but no follow-through.

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Edwin Muir

We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds. / Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. / Look at it well. This was the good town once.

This will certainly open up the sport to a lot of people who might not just go directly to a track to bet on horses. That's where we see significant growth opportunities.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

There are a lot of people betting on the euro so there's not a lot of room for a further rally. There aren't any fresh reasons to sell the dollar after a big move last week.

Henry Petroski

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

When someone is going to pay $3,000 for a Windows NT or Windows 2000 license, you can bet she is going to use it. If she pays $2 or even $50 or $150 for a Linux package, that doesn't necessarily mean it is going to get used -- or it could mean it was used 1,000 times by the organization. We just don't know how to count that.

When she sings, she embodies the song in ways that many singers don't. I thought, 'I bet she can act.' And she can.