Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

William Bastone

The overall majority of contentions he makes in the book are not borne out by contemporaneous police records or by interviews we conducted with police and court officials in Ohio and Michigan.

Buddy Lester

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Ray Charles

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Carter Burwell

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

Jim Thompson

We are cutting back on gas consumption and mileage, ... We are anticipating it will get worse and we may have to cut back even more.

David Dreier

We are not cutting Medicaid for those truly in need.

Nile Rodgers

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

Walter Benjamin

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

Rob Babcock

We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.

Kyle Cooper

We are just waiting on the inventory report now. Yesterday's big move wasn't justified. The Iranians are always talking about cutting output and supporting prices.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Travis Leggett

When a tree is down and power is off, whether it's late at night and it's raining, it doesn't matter. You do it.

Don Herold

When a speaker says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Sgt. Helmer

Yeah, late for school, that's the only story.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Reed Johnson

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Zac Efron

The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

Yann Martel

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Ellen Key

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Everett Dirksen

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Samuel Butler

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Clemence Poesy

I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.

Nicki Minaj

I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Pharrell Williams

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Tom Knight

There is little news to perk up the market.

Venus Williams

You know the reason I don't watch the news is because I don't like violence,

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Arthur Christiansen

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arianna Huffington

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Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

John Griffin

You won't see that reflected right away at the pump.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Annalee Newitz

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

Jean-Marie Lehn

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

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Robert Kiyosaki

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Michael Scott

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

Michael Scott

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.