Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

Harry Reid

We've spent endless hours, endless days, too many weeks debating radical judges and Republican attempts to abuse power.

Tom Malinowski

We've seen a series of half-hearted investigations and slaps on the wrist. The government seems more interested in managing the detainee abuse scandal than in addressing the underlying problems that caused it.

Diane Watson

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Lori Wilde

Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.

Chris Asplen

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

Charles Bradlaugh

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Terri Jones

The power here can be a driving force in the community for both good and bad, and so you have to elect someone you can trust to not abuse those powers, and I feel really confident that John is in that category.

Robert Whiting

The potential for abuse with these contracts is, and has been, a concern.

Karel Amaranth

We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.

Joe Paul

We want to remind everyone how important it is. All indications that anyone has told us is that this year's weather is going to be as bad as last year if not worse.

Jeremy Newberry

We have to get back out there and work our butts off. The only way to get a bad game out of the way is to go out there and work really hard to get better. ... Everyone has to go out there and not point fingers at anyone and continue to find ways to win.

Pam Walker

We have not 100 percent denied anyone yet. We have a number of people who are missing something.... They might owe as little as $17 to the Department of Revenue. We're working with them on that.

David Young

We have no intention of blocking or degrading other services on our network. We are giving customers what they want, which is fast pipes at a low cost. Anyone who tries to take that away from consumers will be punished by the market.

Rolf Wilson

We have so many more competitors now. Anyone who wants to can do it and it's a great spectator sport.

Mark Radke

Whenever you change technology, there will always be select individuals who will be resistant. When ATMs were introduced, people were saying, 'I don't want to get my money out of that box.' Now, hardly anyone walks into a bank.

Lleyton Hewitt

When your ranking gets outside 150 or 200, there's no doubt that it's hard for anyone to come back and play well week-in and week-out,

Edward Gardner

When he got the ball, he hit the hole. He either went left or right; he never let anyone hit him head-on. You can't coach that. You can't teach that.

Kathryn Reith

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

Tom Cappel

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Joel Berg

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

Dan Murphy

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

Randy Blach

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Tom Lyons

We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.

Carlos Ghosn

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

John Grisham

We want to raise all we can and then take the next two years to spend all of it, ... Hopefully then we'll be out of business and there'll be no more hurricanes.

Dennis Kavelman

We have seen a recovery in subscriber additions and business momentum since RIM settled the patent litigation.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that business connections have gotten worse between German enterprises and their partners in the Middle East.

Amit Bhatia

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Roman Romanenko

Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.

Denise Barrett

We want residents to take the time and refresh the information, if it has changed. People's cell phone numbers tend to change or business phone numbers, and they may have changed jobs.

Martha Stewart

We want people to see what real business is really like,

Mark Gaines

We want our customers to think of energy efficiency as a critical business issue, and to look to The Gas Company for valuable solutions. We also invite any food service representatives to think of the Food Service Equipment Center as their one-stop resource for fine-tuning all of their kitchen operations.

Louise Christian

We want to see a prosecution of corporate manslaughter. This report has re-opened that possibility.

Vince Farrell

What the stock market is telling you is that the economy and corporate profits are going to recover sooner than thought.

Lou DiBella

We want his next fight to be in Little Rock, but it would have to make economic sense to us. I need to get a sense of the corporate reaction that, frankly, we haven't seen for the smaller fights in Little Rock. We need a gate that's competitive with Vegas.

Fabian Nunez

The fact of the matter is unions are outspent by corporate contributors 24 to one,

David Cobb

The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy.

Debbie Miller

We developed a solution that extends the identity, security and manageability of the corporate desk phone to the wireless phone. It allows enterprises to be more responsive to their customers, encourages collaboration and increases sales opportunities by providing a mobile user with many essential PBX functions as if the user was at their desk.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Charles Wang

This realignment marks the logical transition from the founder phase of CA to the next level of corporate activity, which is more focused on enhancing shareholder value,

Carl Hiaasen

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

B. R. Hayden

We want people to be as up to date as possible.

Kong Quan

We have proposed dates for the next round of six-party talks and are awaiting the response from the other parties.

Jim Rogers

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes. We just don't fit in anymore.

Jim Rogers

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes, ... We just don't fit in anymore.

Brian Herzlinger

The fact that I won the 1,100 bucks, the fact that her name won me that money -- even though I could have used that money to pay my bills, I thought, 'I'm going to try to get that date with her.' I'm going to take that risk, because if you don't take risks you'll have a wasted soul.

Tove Lo

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

Carl Levin

We set that date without getting the support of the U.N. We set that unilaterally. And we now are trying hard to get the U.N. involved. But without the support of the international community, that date could really backfire on us,

Landon Liboiron

I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

Khloe Kardashian

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.

Stuart Taylor

The fact of the matter is very few appellate judges have had reason to rule on huge executive power issues, so the track record is not that informative.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Khloe Kardashian

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Tom Courtney

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Robert Reich

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

David Pollack

When you're young, the more you do something, the more familiar it becomes, the more comfortable you are with it. You know how it is.

Stephon Marbury

We've settled in as far as who's going to be out there on the court. Guys are getting familiar with what we have to do to win games.

Jamie Dixon

We've seen them and we're familiar with them. Having a short turnaround as far as playing them, at least it's good that we're familiar with them.

Brian Eno

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Laila Robins

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Katherine LaNasa

I personally like to hang out with people; if I'm playing their mom, I'd like to go have lunch with the kid, and I want to try to spend as much time with people that I can while we are working together if we're supposed to have a familiar relationship with them, because I think it reads.

Robert Brown

The person had to be really familiar with the main sites in Buffalo.

Noah Emmerich

I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

John Heisler

We are very familiar with the phone number of our general counsel.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Tom Lehrer

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tim Gunn

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Diane von Furstenberg

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Joe Gibbs

We have a smart football team, and they understand,

Mike Tice

When you're trying to win a playoff-caliber football game, you need to have all three parts play at that level. Not only the level of play-making ability, but also the level of poise and the level of intelligence or smartness.

Mike Shula

We want guys here we've got guys here who want to have people looking at them and wondering what our football team is about.

Alan Sillitoe

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

Alan Sugar

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

Alan Sugar

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Alan Shearer

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

Alan Shearer

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Alan Shearer

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Slobodan Milosevic

The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,

Eric Flint

Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Karen Allen

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

John Erskine

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Michael Milken

This provides something that is readable for the layperson and has been vetted by some of the top scientists. It helps you separate the misinformation.

Andrea Bocelli

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

James Galway

Singing is also important as this helps with your projection.

Scott Peters

She refused to be denied. Wilcox put a lot of pressure on us and to be able to survive that helps us be a better team.

Mike Gillespie

This was as hot as it's ever been. We made big shots when we had to.

Janice Dickinson

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bruce Campbell

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Ozzie Guillen

We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Brian Eno

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brent Weeks

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Billy Chamberlain

We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

John Rhys-Davies

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Friedrich Schiller

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Rick Riordan

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Robert Plant

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Yehuda Amichai

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Devin Nunes

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Scott Walker

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

John Thune

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Ben Wilcox

I don't see why she couldn't make a contribution out of her own pocket. I don't know why she has to use taxpayer money.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.