Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Nicki Harrington

We want to protect the asset we have here and most importantly, it is rebuilding the (heating and air conditioning) systems. The aesthetics are important, but have to be done conservatively.

Jamie Shea

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

Walt Dabney

We have no air force, we have no anti-aircraft guns and we have no authority.

Janice Nolen

We have mounting scientific proof that cleaning up the source of air pollution results in cleaner air and less illness and death. A study recently released showed that when particle air pollution declines in a city, the death rates also drop in that city.

John Wright

When four of ten CEOs (40 per cent) believe that there could be a major economic downturn in the next two years, might be the proverbial canary in the mine. The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players may be putting a degree of caution into the air in what has been to date a robust outlook. Time will tell.

Catherine Jones

When flying into Cardiff to visit her home in Swansea, she has often complained that she cannot easily get from the airport on to the motorway. She has, in fact, been using the

Richard Boucher

We want our airplane back, and we're going to make that point, and we would expect to get a response.

Aaron Spelling

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

Scott Thaler

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

Terry Zwigoff

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.

Sue Monk Kidd

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.

Thomas Friedman

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Elizabeth Thornton

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

John Edgar Wideman

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Duane Michals

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

David Vitalli

There are semen tests out there, and some of them work, some of them don't. The light will even read subcutaneous bruising on corpses - this is serious stuff.

Joanne Davis

This serves as a sort of heads-up for the corps to let them know that we're watching. All this stuff is hitting so fast. It would be such a shame to miss this opportunity.

Leslie Fiering

This road has got a lot of corpses on it.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Oliver Thomas

The patchwork the corps did on the Ninth Ward was nowhere near the level they did on 17th Street. It wasn't the same quality work.

Carre Otis

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Carlos Mencia

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

Aasif Mandvi

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

Aaron Sorkin

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

Robert Williams

There are a lot of doctors of faith, and they're quietly ministering to people in need.

Thomas Frank

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Tomas Borge

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Dianne Feinstein

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

David Agus

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease,

Chris Brady

We were trying to force things too much. We were too impatient.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Randy Roach

We've seen the Gulf of Mexico relocate. The force of nature is something to behold.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We shall run independently ... We shall run as an independent and self-supporting force.

R. Robinson

We set the tone from the start of the game that we were going to play hard and make it tough on them. We were able to force them out of a lot of stuff that they were running comfortably in the first game.

Stephen Colletti

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Tony Hale

But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him... he's such an older masculine force that I remember thinking, 'Wow, his voice makes me sound like Pee-Wee Herman.'

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates. I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Michael Mann

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

John Tortorella

We're just trying to get points. Obviously we wanted two and wanted to win in regulation, but you know the way we played the last two periods I think we're very fortunate to get two points.

Sheldon Souray

We're just taking way too many penalties. We were fortunate tonight that our penalty killing was up to the challenge.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

John Elway

I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

Dave Barry

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

January Jones

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

Chesty Puller

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Chesty Puller

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Chesty Puller

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Kurt Vonnegut

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Bruce Springsteen

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.