Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kinky Friedman

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get,

Diane Paulus

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

Michelle Malkin

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

Simon Hoggart

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

Madonna Ciccone

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Steve Ballmer

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

Romola Garai

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Phyllis Diller

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

Adam Schiff

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

Theodor Herzl

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

John Abizaid

Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

Sue Kelly

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.

Roger Bannister

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Krist Novoselic

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

John Perry Barlow

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

John Locke

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Wayne Dyer

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Ben Bernanke

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Dan Lipinski

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Tom Rath

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Peter Garrett

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Bill Frist

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

Rebecca H. Davis

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Dennis Hastert

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

Ken Ham

Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

Marty Meehan

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Shari Arison

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.

Kenny Chesney

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

Betty Wright

'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

John Walters

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Aimee Mullins

Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?

Barney Frank

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

Georg Buchner

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Natalie Massenet

People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

Nathan Lane

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Donatella Versace

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

LaToya London

Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

Demi Lovato

Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

Kristen Schaal

'Rock of Love' with Bret Michaels was fun. He's a lovable guy.

Sue Wicks

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Grace Paley

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.