Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Swindle

Legislation could have a dampening effect on the growth and expansion and the vitality of e-commerce, ... Our society functions on the free flow of information. If we have to have everybody's approval on everything, things would come to a grinding halt.

Rob Schneider

Legislation before the house proposes much tougher restrictions on new drugs and drugs with outstanding post-market approval studies that have not yet been completed,

Charles M. Schwab

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.

Steve Cole

We did get that approval, and we filed for dismissal.

Pat O'Neill

We have a really good location that doesn't need a lot of work. We just need the society's approval and we can get this project going.

David Hale

My guess is that we'll hear by November who it is, given the need to have time for Congressional approval to occur, but I think the selection is wide open,

Jonathan Burns

She did not get an approval but scheduled surgery.

Kevin O'Donnell

Since it was done on an open market basis, they typically gave it their stamp of approval and moved on. Now it will be a little bit different.

Carlos Sanchez

Many investors stayed out of the market because of the long weekend, but prices rose due to the approval of the Enabling Law.

Bob Wright

When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.

Keith Ashdown

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Adam Gross

We're really betting on two horses: We will continue to support Visual Studio.Net, and in the non-.Net world, we're going to be using Eclipse.

Gary Davies

We're still betting $3 the Swans, but I can see that shortening.

David Stern

We're going to Las Vegas because we think it's a great destination city. They have removed the All-Star events from the betting line, and we think that we have no problem with people who want to go there and gamble.

Takashi Kudo

Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is expected to be sustained, as the market is now betting on continued interest rate hikes in the US.

Larry Noble

Right now, a number of members are betting on the public losing interest and getting away without any new reforms.

Brendan Conway

On his person he had a list of video poker machine locations and betting sheets.

Chuck Schumer

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

S. Hughes

We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida.

Jay Rockefeller

when the most senior officials in the Bush administration had already forcefully and repeatedly stated their conclusions publicly.

Robert Dye

We're showing Bush with 53.7 percent of the vote but over the past couple of months our forecast has come down. We seem to be moving towards a tighter election.

Luis Saenz

We're excited and honored that the same folks who worked hard to re-elect President Bush are doing the same to re-elect Governor Perry.

Richard P. Feynman

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Ronald Kessler

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Mahmoud Abbas

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Jiang Zemin

Let's find out more about what Bush wants to do with Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and the missile-defense system,

Howard Stern

Let's face it. You got to the head of the FCC, you got to the front of the class the way George W. Bush got out of the draft -- and it's completely fair for me to question,

Rhys Ifans

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

Jim Yong Kim

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

Robert Hill

There is considerable evidence that the weapons of mass destruction program (in Iraq) ... is progressing,

John Price

We're grateful that we were able to present our evidence in a fair hearing and we look forward to a positive outcome.

Alexandra Sanders

My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases.

E. O. Wilson

She is not guilty. She always has maintained that she is not guilty, and the state has no evidence to the contrary.

Leslie Kean

Most people don't think that there is evidence because they haven't look for it. There's such a little green men mindset in this culture. It's hard to work your way through that.

P. J. O'Rourke

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is now giving evidence that its new marketing strategy and new slogan work very effectively.

J. Taylor

She doesn't have hobbies, she's not a gambler and she's not a traveler.

Keith Whyte

The percentage of women who gamble has dramatically increased. Twenty years ago, it would have been 80 percent men, 20 percent women, and now it's 50-50.

Jacob Ruppert

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Nasir Khan

I don't Understand why People become Farmers, Gangsters & Gamblers when they join Facebook...

Dan Bennett

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Terrence McGee

I was hanging back, but I saw when he had that pressure he tried to throw it short. I took a gamble and it worked out.

Christopher Meeker

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

Pete Rose

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

Fernando Alonso

We did the right thing. We didn't need to take the gamble and played it safe.

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

James Weldon Johnson

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

David Brooks

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

David Brooks

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

Astrid Lindgren

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Arnold Palmer

I’m particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

Denis Leary

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Dick Durbin

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

Dick Cavett

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

Dick Cavett

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Dennis Miller

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Dale Short

We've seen a big improvement at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, and we've seen a big improvement at No. 4, 5, 6 singles.

Philip Greenfield

We're looking to realize savings and improvement from this innovation in three areas.

Carla Peterson

Six points is a lot to jump in one meet to the next. We are back on track to where we want to be. We are ready to see more improvement with each meet.

Patty Vavra

She had a monster throw. It was remarkable improvement in a year's time or less.

David Williams

We knew this was not an overnight fix. That's not realistic. We're not at all panicky. I have seen improvement.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

David Brooks

I'm not a kicker and a screamer.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Jonny Gomes

Yes, he's kicked back. He has a lot of positive thoughts, positive things to say.

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Kristy Curry

Obviously, I needed to kick and scream and yell tonight. If that's what it takes, that's how I'll be. I want to be all I can be for them.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Diana Gabaldon

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Al Capp

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Goldstein

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Clark Chapman

But there are more asteroids out there, so we should be paying attention.

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Verlene Powell

One of the big things that Boise seemed to have a problem with at this school. Was that we were paying to teach all these teachers, but they were going to other states because of better pay and what not.

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Chris Evert

I always looked ahead.

Art Spiegelman

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Tom Latham

I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Marek Belka

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Catherynne M. Valente

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Marshal Cohen

Women updated their wardrobes and showed a propensity toward style and comfort.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Kendall Carver

We think that what is reported is just the tip of the iceberg.

Zhang Qi

One after the other, they reported everything was safe and sound. I was ecstatic.

Julie Thomas

There were more rapes reported this year than last. I know there's some speculation that there's just more reports. Well, I don't know that. I don't know that it's not actually going up. There's so much we don't know.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Shannon Hoon

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Carson Kressley

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

Bobbi Brown

She's going to start recording, ... Hopefully, I will get to work with her on this album.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.

Deborah Harkness

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Alan Dershowitz

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

David Hume

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

David Duke

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.

David Duke

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

David Brooks

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

Barry Bonds

I don't sign for white people.

Athol Fugard

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Antonio Tabucchi

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Diablo Cody

Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Derek Jarman

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

Diana Gabaldon

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Jandy Nelson

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

Augusten Burroughs

I'm always prepared for the worst.

Ben Fountain

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Henry Blake

One of the worst days. One of the very worst.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Brian Austin Green

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

Brad Henry

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.