Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall Brickman

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

On one hand, you can count the number of mills in Oregon that mill a big log.

On the Internet there are no boundaries, there are no doors, there are no countries and lines; it's just the Internet, wide open and if somebody feels like hacking a website, they're just going to do it. There's no personal information on the website, so they're not hacking for personal information, stealing social security numbers or anything, they're hacking just to do it.

One of the sad things in this country is that we don't have enough teachers who teach technique. How do you sing on a day when you don't feel like it?

one of the greatest benefactors that this country has ever known.

one of the most tragic, costly and preventable public health problems facing this country today.

One of the most important things to remember is land-use decisions in Licking County are made at the township level, through township zoning.

Frank Gaffney

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

One of the issues that we are wrestling with in our eight counties is crisis services, and ensuring that crisis services are available. We don't have that in place yet for adults or for kids, but we're working to try to put it in place.

Ralph Merkle

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

Paul Gillmor

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

Paul Gillmor

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

Peter Jackson

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

We have had exceptionally wet weather in Derby for the last six weeks. We did look at other possibilities in the area, but everywhere in the county is in the same boat.

Theodore Roosevelt

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

Bob Ney

We have an immigration crisis in this country and the Senate needs to act, instead of listening to speeches from the President of Mexico.

We could have people locked up all over the country tomorrow. The government saying 'trust us' is no excuse.

We can't logistically supply 19 counties with water and essential supplies.

We can't imagine Mr. Spinks wanting to do anything that could be as potentially harmful to Ohio County culture and history as this. If we do receive official notice, then we will respond at that time.

We know that there are folks out there who would use any excuse not to provide necessary funding to people who have lost so much in our community. It's all about perception. We understand the import of this whole thing, and we hope the rest of the country gets the message: New Orleans is not going to do things the way we used to do it.

Kit Bond

We have very different philosophies on how we serve our country,

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Scott Turow

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

Mark Zuckerberg

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Melissa McCarthy

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Patty Loveless

George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

Marco Rubio

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.

Michael Robinson

We know that a lot of folks will support this and a lot of them will oppose it. It's fair to say that this really puts Oregon's wine country at a crossroads.

We know it kind of sounds like a country band, but we wanted to be nondescript with the name. We wanted something that didn't tag us to any genre.

We'll have a big discussion about it. And my guess is there will be other discussions around the country after you write your story.