Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're branches off the original technology fund. In the next several years, we see accelerated opportunities in those two areas.

Harry Reid

This is a power play.... When you have all three branches of government controlled by the Republicans, you wind up with stuff like this, which is simply a misuse of power.

Reaching skyward; no longer leaning,we grow well and strong,our friendship reinforced, in the knowledge thatwhether the branches intertwine or grow apart,we will always be able to find comfort,knowing fate has lent us strength in each other.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Ron Wyden

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

Richard King

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

They'll have to do some work to get the branches up to snuff.

Michel Hazanavicius

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

Herman Melville

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: / Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

All of the branches will end up getting a makeover in their general circulation area.

Eric Burdon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

John Pople

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Engler

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

James Madison

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Gustav Mahler

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Pete Carroll

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Stanislaw Lem

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Steven Wright

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.