Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

John Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Kenny Harrison

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

John Sladek

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Mohamed Abukar

Rebounding is probably the biggest thing that we didn't do as well as we needed to, but that wasn't the reason we lost. We didn't do a lot of things as well as we should have. We lost because of us, not because of Utah.

Willie Parker

Records? I don't really care about that record. The biggest record is that we were the sixth seed and we came in and shocked the world.

Jason Fisher

Relaxation is the perfect word for it. I think the biggest thing for me was knowing it was my last one.

Rachael Scoggin

Our overall goal is to win so that we can have a good winning record. We need to stay mentally focused for 80 minutes. I think that's the biggest struggle that we have had this season.

Todd Heap

Our offensive line has been blocking great and giving him time to relax and throw the ball. That's the biggest thing.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.

Ron Hassey

People have to realize that. He won seven gold gloves. It's not like we have to clean him up. The biggest thing right now is learning our pitchers and how they throw. Any catcher that comes over here would have to go through that process.

Paul Dretsch

(Swain) is a freshman, but she's a pretty composed player on the biggest stage.

Leslie Moonves

Steven Bochco has had the biggest hits of the '70s, '80s and '90s. And we hope with 'City of Angels,' it's the biggest hit of the new millennium.

Scott Walker

People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

Syed Salahuddin

Our struggle is for liberation and right of self- determination, a right given to oppressed nations by the U.N. Charter. President Clinton must distinguish between the oppressed and the oppressor.

Hank Sheinkopf

Plan to see Sen. Clinton - post-2006 - spending a lot of time in the Midwest.

Karl Rove

It is a relationship of respect. Clinton liked to mine us for money, but we have accomplished more with this administration than we ever did with Clinton.

David Jones

I think actually the Clinton presidency is going to be hurt enough so that he is going to have more trouble coming through with that contribution to the IMF.

Charlie Cook

I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people. But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel.

John Podesta

I think he's done something that I think President Clinton did not do in midterm races or even in his own re-election,

Barney Frank

I think Gore was over-reacting in some ways to the criticism that Clinton hadn't pushed hard enough.

Martin O'Malley

I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

Jeff Immelt

Reinsurance is an industry that has had a difficult time over the past few years, and we're disappointed in our results, ... We are committed to running ERC effectively for our investors. This includes profitability and exploring strategic options.

Dr. Gerberding

Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.

William Higgins

passionately committed to the success of the exchange.

David Young

passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

Ra'anan Gissin

Our only concern, and the concern of those committed to the peace process and the road map, is the performance of this government with regard to the implementation of the security requirements of the road map, which include dismantling of terror organizations and the stopping of incitement as well as completing comprehensive democratic reforms.

Jeff Davidson

Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God,

Z. Sheppard

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

Kathleen Kennedy

Steven is extremely committed to DreamWorks, ... He doesn't want it to go away.

Josh Tarrell

Some of these girls don't play a lot (during varsity games). It takes a strong, committed player to a team to do that. They're as important to the team as anybody, especially in practice. Without them, we're not as good as we can be.

Sir Vanbrugh

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Fidel Castro

I think only God can punish crimes of such magnitude.

James Comey

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

Adrian Raine

We looked for things like inconsistencies in their stories about occupation, education, crimes and family background.

Deborah Ellis

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Stockwell Day

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500% increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600% increase.

Craig Etcheson

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

S. J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Mark Godsey

The database is very important on solving old crimes and new crimes. It's also important for protecting innocence.

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

Orrin Hatch

I think he'd stop everything else if he could just sit down with the former president, ... If he could just sit down and talk to him.

Dave Hollenbeck

I thought it was good for our kids to come out with the intensity they showed. We got in the passing lanes, and obviously, our size was a factor. The kids want to play well in front of some of the former Gaels.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Jason Rostorfer

He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wrestler who former standout wrestler Greg Murphy took under his wing when Josh was a freshman. Josh worked hard in the weight room with Murphy and he is living proof that hard work pays off.

Ed Gillespie

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

H. Hunt

Get referrals from your former clients, and even join their organizations so that those members can be your clients.

Charles Greene

Former workers are most at risk for asbestos exposure.

John Fortier

Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.

Katie Couric

But first this is the President's seventh, seventh trip to the hurricane zone and the former oilman is getting a real firsthand look at the devastation that's there.

Stephen Hess

The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.

Edward Lazarus

This is a situation where, from the very moment the justices start back up in October, they're going to be very divided,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. B. King

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B. F. Skinner

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Carrie Underwood

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Bethenny Frankel

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Bill Self

I think he'll be OK (for Friday). He just tweaked it.

Ron Polk

I think he's all right. We'll take an X-ray for sure, but he should be OK for the weekend.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

Amanda Thompson

I did okay (in the 800). I could have done better. I like it better outside.

Frank Luntz

It can be done more wisely and effectively, or hey, not at all! We're okay with that too!

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

Jim Margolin

We often receive threat information. We run it out. We pursue it.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Monica Lewinsky

Intercourse, ... I never had intercourse. I did not have a sexual relationship.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!