Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ruckelshaus

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Will Rogers

The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

W. C. Fields

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

Zubin Mehta

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

Zac Efron

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

Zara Phillips

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

Wendell Berry

That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.

Willa Cather

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Warren Buffett

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

Warren Buffett

... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

Vivienne Westwood

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Vladimir Lenin

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Samuel Beckett

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

Ward Churchill

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Rainbow Rowell

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Terry Pratchett

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Terry Brooks

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Marcia Angell

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Rudy Giuliani

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

Robertson Davies

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.

Sam Levenson

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Sally Kirkland

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Shannen Doherty

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Natalie Merchant

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

Swami Vivekananda

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Tony Bennett

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.