Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niger Innis

People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them.

Sen. Stepp

When there's an overwhelming request on the part of an overwhelming majority in your caucus that you're elected to represent to do or not do something, you should be very respectful of that.

Neil LeBlanc

I have a lot of people in caucus who gave me their support. I know from discussions with them that their level of comfort was higher with Rodney.

Hugh Winebrenner

We've had some very famous people through Iowa who failed in the caucuses -- John Glenn, Ted Kennedy drew huge crowds here, but were never able to convert that into caucus support.

Melissa Bean

And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources.

Alicia Dlugosh

He said he would caucus with members Tuesday, and we'll go from there.

Arlen Specter

There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.

Larry Sabato

He learned that you have to play ball. You have to serve the caucus and the leadership. And one of the primary ways to do that is to raise money for the caucus and help members who are politically in danger at the next election.

Stewart Iverson

Our caucus said they did not want to do that. They said they've already spoken on it. And they said we're not willing to reopen the negotiations.

Charles Sims

We have no plans to convert to an income trust.

Hines Ward

We started off fast. And for the most part, we made plays when we needed to make them, but we didn't convert third downs and were in too many third-and-long situations.

Bob Stoops

When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.

Mark Boyd

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Mike Drass

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

German Proverbs

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Jane Austen

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Smiley

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of Number

Kurt Vonnegut

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Callie Khouri

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

Dustin Moskovitz

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Diane Kruger

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Roger Griffith

She is recognized, she is signing autographs, there are crowds forming. People know who she is. It is unbelievably exciting. This is what we dreamed it could be when we selected her.

Chris Vance

The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay.

Hadi Jawad

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Chris Savage

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Scott Brown

Nobody trains harder than Drew Switzer. He's as hard a worker as I've ever seen.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

Linda McMahon

We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

Koichiro Matsuura

We did everything possible to prevent this happening but we have failed miserably.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Mark Greene

We're here because unfortunately judges have failed us in some of these cases,

Lawrence Taylor

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Walter Kirn

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Ramsey Poston

Shane failed to fulfill the prescribed rehabilitation program scheduled by NASCAR. As a result, Shane has forfeited his opportunity to compete.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Tom Guiry

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Uzo Aduba

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Bram Stoker

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Buffalo Bill

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

Al Sharpton

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Al Sharpton

The GOP`s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

James Van Allen

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Joe Trippi

Look, we haven't won Iowa or New Hampshire, a vote hasn't been cast,

Gail O'Grady

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

Kim Burningham

The reason it (the Iowa results) didn't come out was me. There is nothing meant (by) it.

Eric Kress

We patterned our program after Minnesota's. They have 800 to 1,000 kids in it. Last year, Iowa had about 75 participants - about 10 from Waukee.

Terry Branstad

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Emun Elliott

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Jai Courtney

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy spoke to Sen. Stevens in support of this provision.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

Ronald Steele

To see Kennedy Winston - the most talented player I've ever played with - not get picked was a reality check.

Emo Philips

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!

Roy Moore

I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Cameron Russell

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

Sam Harris

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Sam Brownback

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Ray LaMontagne

My backstory is so tedious.