Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Siskel

Roger and I are now in our 20th year and I think people tune in because they know that for better or for worse, these are our opinions.

Robert McChesney

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

Judge M. Lane

Laws are changed all the time, but the legislature primarily makes the law.

Richard Roeper

Listening to Harry when he was at his best was like watching the game with your funny uncle, the one who used to play Double-A ball.

Robert McChesney

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Stanley Crouch

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Roger Ebert

Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

Chuck Klosterman

I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.

Robert McChesney

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Avi Rubin

People have jumped on the electronic voting bandwagon, thinking that will solve the problems, ... But these systems are largely untested.

Peter Lilley

Physical money possesses greater risk than electronic money or even gold.

Linda Ronstadt

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

Tiesto

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

Eric Gould

He was interested in a project with an electronic pulse,

Larry Wachtel

I also like Tandy ( TAN : Research , Estimates ). They sell all the electronic gear that is so exciting on the dip.

J. Hoover

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

Atsushi Osa

The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at least 5 percent, and that will probably lead to profit gains of at least 10 percent.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Wayne Martin

People know that we're doing that. It's a lot of the same people, and they can watch it an hour earlier. But we take pride in providing that service.

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Georgia Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Stephanie Davis

I went to the doctor, and about an hour later, I was in the trauma center.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Thomas Frank

Some meetings' minutes are missing. There are a number of gaps.

Dale Lennon

Our start was very good. The first 10 minutes were pretty impressive.

Chris Griffin

Remember that you have, at most, three to 10 minutes to make a pitch.

Nykesha Sales

Playing 40 minutes is a priority. We have to try and play like that to prepare for the playoffs because they're right around the corner.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Eric Norris

That's the way there going to be usually. I was real surprised the first three weeks went so long. But, just trying to get organized takes a long time, but most of the time when we're settled in, it'll only be about thirty minutes long.

Craig Bellamy

I was really disappointed with our first 20 minutes but we competed well after that. You are in for a tough night if you give 18 points start,

Adauto Lima

I still think it will be 0.75 in January, but the minutes pointed more toward 0.50 again.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ken Smith

The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Trisha Goddard

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.