Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Brown

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Richard Flanagan

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

John Snow

I'm astonished every time I come to see how much has happened since the last time I came, ... the changes are nothing short of breathtaking.

Kevin Starr

I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government.

Daphne Guinness

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Danielle Steel

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Mario Roberty

There are huge holes in it, unfortunately. But I'm astonished at how successful scientists have been in putting things together.

Vladimir Putin

Well I also want to say something to that topic. I am astonished that our internal law-making is of such great interest to foreign governments.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Richard Holbrooke

We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

Vladimir Ustinov

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Ken Falk

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

John Reeves

Nobody really wants to go down this route and it is a case of who blinks first. There is a cast-iron rationale for maintaining a significant number of full-service branches and staffed offices.

Henry David Thoreau

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Chan Gailey

We've already got a lot of the film breakdown done,

Nicholas Kristof

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Maj. Crisp

Usually it is someone driving in the breakdown lane.

Michael McCulloch

We actually don't know what the dogs are smelling. But we do know that cancers have breakdown products - cocktails of compounds - and these smell different to a dog than normal cells." ()

Robert Carlyle

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Thompson

Only in the new millennium, in the waning days of ironic cultural breakdown could something like this have happened. He is now a brilliant actor.

Craig Bellamy

Maybe the communication breakdown was actually at their end up there.

Marc Johnson

Obviously there's been a breakdown in the whole city of Kenner,

Ray Mickens

We were in man coverage and they ran a simple pick play and I got caught up. We had a breakdown on the coverage because that should not happen.

Suzanne Fields

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

Timothy Noah

Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.

Carl Jung

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Roger Pilon

With today's decision, no one's property is safe, since any time a government official thinks someone else can make better use of your property than you're doing, he can order it condemned and transferred.

Bernard Ebbers

WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.

Margaret MacDonald

There are low views of God's holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

Jacques Chirac

France in the strongest possible way condemns these hateful acts,

Yasser Arafat

I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Jim Clyburn

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Jim Jarmusch

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

Abdul Sattar

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,

Susan Reeves

We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

Connie Maina

We're having discussions with them, We welcome an open dialogue with appropriate Kenyan authorities and look forward to a positive resolution.

Brian Tracy

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Erich Leinsdorf

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

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.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Clint Hill

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Damarius Bilbo

That's a typical Calvin Johnson day. I just had to give him an outlet.

Rick Carlisle

Johnson played great. We did a lot of different things on him defensively, but he was able to get shots or get teammates shots.

Chris Pardue

Johnson is really a good, tough back. If you don't wrap him up, he just keeps going.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

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