Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

E. V. Lucas

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

Colin Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Colin Powell

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Brian Dawkins

We used that until they wrecked one of theirs.

We understand what we are up against, but we will not play scared. We will play hard. We will play together. We will compete. We'll get our shots. We just have to make them.

We should wait until after the (April) election.

When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

Georgette Mosbacher

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

Gary Wright

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Don Shula

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

Henry L. Stimson

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Donna Shalala

I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.

Well, yeah we do. We've got friends all over the United States.

James Nesbitt

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

Antonin Scalia

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.

We're underdogs here. We have to work for it.

Emmy Rossum

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Jennifer Lopez

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

Henry Petroski

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Andy Kindler

You can't go wrong with pizza, unless it's terrible pizza.

Anthony Horowitz

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.