Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pretty much controlled the game from the start to the end.

We preferred to leave the group in place to let them continue working in peace.

John Thune

We prayed a lot about it as did a lot of other people and finally concluded that this was something that we needed to do.

Teresa Heinz

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

Toby Keith

When you've got an extra gear in your head where that's all you do, you've constantly got a little radar up. ... And when something hits that strikes that beeper, hits that radar, it's like my song skills kick right in and go, 'Oh, OK, there's a song in that.' And then I start trying to figure it out.

Tina Weymouth

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Todd Tiahrt

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Sam Harris

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

Sam Harris

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

Susan Minot

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Susan Minot

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

Steven Hatfill

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.

Steven Sinofsky

Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.

Scott Weiss

As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires.

Vayalar Ravi

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

Vladimir Putin

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

Val McDermid

The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

V. E. Schwab

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

Trey Parker

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

Trent Reznor

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Tony Campolo

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

Tom Brokaw

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

Tom Ford

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

Terry Eagleton

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Thalia

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Tyrone Hayes

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

Tod Machover

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.