Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buzz Aldrin

Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.

Charles Schumer

If you were a clerk who earned $30,000 a year and you had 20 years left, you'll get a lump sum payment of $30,000 a year for the next 20 years, plus the pain and suffering, plus the pension,

Bob Ward

The majority party is going to take the position that the Governor can't put her ideas in the hands of the clerk of the House and Senate and the hands of each one of us. That's wrong.

Brian Frosh

The real issue at this point is Joe Steffen confirmed what they have denied all the way through this, which is they were firing file clerks and secretaries to make room for people they wanted to get jobs for, ... They were using those low-level jobs as patronage.

George Akerlof

My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.

Mike Dunne

I WAS THERE because I'm supporting Jeff. We have been friends for 15 years. County clerk is an administrative office, not a partisan one.

Fredric March

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

Sugata Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Peter Buckley

Jamie was without artifice. He spoke plainly and directly. And he talked the same way to the office clerk as he did to the president - politely, and without too many wasted words.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Randy Thomasson

The only real option to be the people's governor - the only option for the people's governor - is to use the veto pen. We're looking for action. We need a veto.

Fred Silva

We still have the problem that governors like to do stuff.

Andrew Grossman

This nation's health-care problems are, in no small part, about Wal-Mart. Should governors take up Scott's offer for him to visit their states, we are sure he will hear just that.

Arlo Guthrie

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Peter T. King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Liz Boyd

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax. It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Jennifer Granholm

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax, ... It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Brad Shove

We pretty much lost this one in the first half. We played very poorly. We didn't put enough pressure on them. We had to do a better job of getting our hands up. They got too many open shots.

Vint Cerf

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

Susan Sontag

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Laura Slade Wiggins

When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

Walter Benjamin

There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

Terry Goodkind

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard

John Sacchi

Year and year out, Rider has a tough team. We're going to have our hands full.

Marty Miller

Yeah (we're excited), ... I've always sat in the bleachers. (At Del Mar) I must have shook 40 or 50 hands and was congratulated at least 100 times.

Cindy Sherman

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Abdul Latif

We prefer to stay in our house as we still have our second floor. We would leave the house and go to the shelter houses only if the water has already reached roof high.

Sarah Hall

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Nimrat Kaur

Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Jennifer Aniston

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Monica Crowley

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Anthony D'Angelo

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Alan Cohen

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Leona Lewis

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Walter Benjamin

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Walter Benjamin

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Bill Gillette

We never had a waiting list for people who wanted to be on the board. We needed more people to come to the table and have everyone's ideas heard.

Ludwig von Mises

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Paula McCartney

We are not in party politics anyway, because if we do stand we will be standing as independents.

Dennis Prager

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

Walter Benjamin

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

Daniel Hannan

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Ludwig von Mises

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Ludwig von Mises

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

Ludwig von Mises

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,