Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Cook

All of us are pushing the envelope. All of us are going to go for gold or get nothing. Mediocrity is not going to cut it.

Michael Ignatieff

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

Ray Bradbury

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Ray Bradbury

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

Randy Jackson

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!

Randy Newman

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Ramin Bahrani

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

Rand Paul

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

Rand Paul

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone. Let's keep taxes low and let's cut spending.

Rand Paul

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Rand Paul

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

Rand Paul

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.

Ralph Bakshi

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

Rajneesh

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Sean Durkin

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Mick Jagger

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Michelle Malkin

Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.

Michelle Obama

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?

Michael Porter

Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

Shonda Rhimes

Finally I want to say this: if you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: you are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.

Sherrod Brown

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Sheri S. Tepper

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

Raven-Symone

I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!

Ravi Zacharias

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

Tom Daschle

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

Tom Colicchio

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Tom Allen

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

Todd Phillips

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

Sloane Stephens

I try to look cute all the time.

Skylar Grey

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.