Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Malcolm

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

Ellen Goodman

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

Eric Ripert

Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.

Eric S. Raymond

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Eric Ries

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Eric Ries

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

Joseph Addison

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Jose Carreras

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jorge Luis Borges

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Kevin Spacey

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Kurt Fuller

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

Khalil Gibran

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Kerry Washington

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

Henry Giroux

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

Henry Blodget

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Malorie Blackman

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Mandy Moore

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Malcolm Turnbull

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

John C. Maxwell

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

George R. R. Martin

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

George Carlin

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

George Carlin

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

George Carlin

Number one, one, one on wonderful WINO.

George Carlin

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

Frank Sinatra

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

Scott Caan

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Tobias Smollett

Number three is always fortunate.

Sloane Crosley

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

James R. Thompson

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.