Famous Quotes & Sayings

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

Billy Collins

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Amy Bloom

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

Aidan Gillen

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Steve-O

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.

I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

Elizabeth George

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

Eliot Spitzer

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.

David Bailey

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

The deal is positive for the market as it helps clear the air. Obviously, restrictions are going to be tighter in the future.

The deal is a clear sign that it still pays to be overweight Mexico and we expect to see more upside.

The deal clearly leaked. When the market closed on Friday, everybody knew this company was gone on Monday.

The crisis over the current situation is a clear indication the river is dying.

The criminal trial today is a kind of show-jumping contest in which the rider for the prosecution must clear every obstacle to succeed.

The cries of 'Who is next?' will clearly go up after this deal, but we tend to think that this (AT&T-BellSouth) was one of the most logical of the remaining unions.

The controller said from Day 1 that he would put in whatever was needed to be competitive. Clearly we have a nice financial edge and we'll continue to have it for the rest of the campaign.

The fact that we didn't make the NCAA Tournament or the NIT contributed to the decision, but I want to emphasize it's clearly not the only reason we're making the decision.

Mark Robson

The fact she and Melanie are so close and clearly the dog has been a lifesaver in the past... makes her special.

David Boies

The facts are pretty clear of what Cablevision did. If the antitrust laws do apply, their conduct was wrongful.

We'll start seeing the sun peeking out in the next few days, and that will clear things up. We kind of got spoiled with January, and now we're back to normal type of winter conditions.

Li Keqiang

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

John Bolton

What we see is unanimous support for a very strong, very clear signal, and we're just down now to a very few fine points,

Claude M. Bristol

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end

Kay Redfield Jamison

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible.

Kirchner and his group want to do their own thing and they're clearing the road for that.

Brian Billick

Jamal clearly had that rhythm -- good, tough, physical running -- and he got stronger as he went, which is typical of what you see.

Colin Trevorrow

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

I would submit to you that showing of good faith is there. It doesn't get any clearer than that -- the commerce department's recent decision to slash the tariffs, to render a decision that would result in the elimination of tariffs probably as early as January.

I would say we played down to Clear Lake. We are a lot better than that, and we can't do that. Iowa Falls will be tough.

Bruce Gordon

Katrina has been an attention-getting experience for this administration, ... It's clear that the administration has not had (black and poor people) as high on their priority list as they should have.

just to clear up a few issues. There was some information that we still needed. We're going to now evaluate all that.

Just talking about (the discounts), it was clear that if we were going to come with an employee pricing program, we had to make it better, and/or when we started talking about it we needed to do it in a different way.

David Thomson

Jon Stewart is clearly an unusual figure. He might have said, 'If you want me, you've got to have me on my own terms'.