Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

Corrine Brown

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

Donald Evans

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Glenn Greenwald

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'

Dennis Kucinich

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

Bill Clinton

When a Texas school insisted on hoisting the Confederate flag every morning, Governor Bush said it was not a state but a local issue. And they called me slick!

Elizabeth Garrett

We are not looking at tax reform this year or probably during the Bush presidency. Maybe they'll resurrect it in 2007, but then at that time everyone will be looking at the next presidential race.

Robert Bennett

We are not debating stimulating the economy. We are eviscerating the Bush tax cut.

John Zogby

Where Bush leads he leads big, where Gore leads he leads small.

Edward Markey

We know there is a toxic cocktail that results when you put Ford explorer and Firestone tires together,

Charlotte Bronte

Everyone else is just cocktails.

Chelsea Handler

I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.

Joanna Lumley

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

Lance Armstrong

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

Terry Wogan

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Patti Thompson

It doesn't mean any more than it did last year or the year before. It's interesting cocktail conversation.

Elsa Maxwell

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Andrew Ross Sorkin

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Jose Gil

We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just aren't comfortable. I'm plain tired of watching us lose in the first or second round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Francis Lockier

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

Colm Toibin

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

Fisher DeBerry

We prepared very well and I thought our guys were ready to play. Obviously, TCU was ready to play and they played a fine football game.

Fisher DeBerry

We prepared very well and I thought our guys were ready to play, ... Obviously, TCU was ready to play and they played a fine football game.

Susan Glaspell

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

Sergei Lavrov

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.

Lao Tzu

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Ben Barnes

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

William Gibson

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Charisma Carpenter

Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.

Paul Chryst

We probably should have gotten him more, right?

Trent Reznor

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Tom Brady

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.

Anna Deavere Smith

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Katie Chang

Now I've gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I'm over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Evel Knievel

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

Ben Affleck

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Cheryl Cole

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Sara Rue

Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever had a the pleasure to be around. She is so professional and always on time and has it together. It really is a joy to be around her.

Arthur Hiller

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Fisher Stevens

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

Deb Smith

We had a nice pitching performance from Katie.

Paul Aznarez

We had a nice little run and kind of turned the tide a little bit. That's what you look for in your press.

Amy Ray

We did some planning with them. It was nice to get involved.

Don Meyers

We did some nice things to get back into the game.

Walter Benjamin

There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Mike Journee

We're working with all the parties to see how we can do recharge when we've got all this snow in the mountains.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Rosa Hawkins

We do weddings and we do private parties and we do all of that stuff.

E. B. White

For parties and big gatherings, this is what we sell.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

Josh Lucas

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Paul Anka

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

Sevyn Streeter

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Nicky Hilton

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Mark Spitz

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

Plato

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

David Velasquez

To have those relays qualified this time of the season is fantastic.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Andy McDonald

I think I'm the most surprised out of anyone.