Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Greenwald

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Harvey Mackay

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Ian Anderson

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

David Dinkins

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

Deborah Mailman

I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.

Deborah Harkness

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deb Caletti

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

Dean Wareham

I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.

David Souter

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

Carrie Preston

'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot it, plus it has an hour of content. 'The Good Wife' is network. They're shooting on HD. It moves quicker and they only have forty minutes of content instead of a full hour. Not to mention the difference of shooting, you know, rated-R stuff!

Dave Davies

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

Davey Havok

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

Dikembe Mutombo

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

With energy prices at least roughly flattening out, and with the labor market continuing to strengthen, those are probably two of the main reasons people are starting to get more optimistic.

With employment gains non-existent, income growth has slowed. As households also become more judicious in taking on more debt, consumer spending will remain soft.

Donald Rumsfeld

With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,

Ivan Pavlov

With each meal, when edible substances find their way into the oral cavity, thick and viscous saliva containing much mucus flows out of these glands.

With each day that passes, more lives are put at risk. Congress should enact emergency legislation as soon as possible.

With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on average, higher pump prices than last year.

With consumers not spending, is it any surprise that the manufacturing sector has stumbled?

With confidence in a unified Iraqi state at a low ebb, ... there is a lot resting on the referendum to replace insurgency with political participation.

While it's true that there is stronger growth in demand for DVDs, many of our customers have VHS recorders and therefore still want VHS tapes. We will continue to sell the VHS tapes as long as there is a demand from our customers.

While it's true that Sears is stuck in a sales slump for a long time, the retailer has also been in a restructuring mode, ... By getting rid of the credit business, it can finally devote all its resources to its core business. I'm convinced Sears will deliver impressive results in the next six to 12 months.

While it's not appropriate for us to discuss specifically what the Korean FTC is looking at, suffice it to say that we have been and will continue to cooperate.

While I think (new-home sales) will continue to grow, I don't think it can maintain the pace it had in 2005.

While in the short-term it sounds sensible in terms of going into the U.S. and so on, there must be some serious concerns about PacifiCorp,

While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,

While I know there are a lot of leaks and speculation, most of what I've read has been totally off base, ... We are in the home stretch with U.S. regulators. We are highly confident of a successful conclusion.

Gary Shapiro

While home entertainment continues to be an important segment of the consumer electronics industry, home information has become the largest and fastest growing product group.

With our schedule, it'll be hard to predict how we'll do. But I'd be disappointed if we're not back in contention for the playoffs again.

With our leadership and their support, the Steamboat Grand will continue to grow and prosper.

With our eighth consecutive quarter of increased earnings per share, we continue to feel good about the turnaround momentum at Kmart.