Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Kathryn Lasky

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

Ollie Goulston

When he is out there on the court he makes everyone around him better. He is consummate point guard in that way. A lot of it is the intangibles, like calling the right sets, getting guys in the right position and creating.

Tyra Banks

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Bob Lee

We had a very difficult time finding many of the officers who worked on these cases to interview them or even call them up because there was no phone services.

Jennifer Woods

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

Madeleine Peyroux

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

Dontrelle Willis

When I got the call telling me I had won, I was definitely floored and honored.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

David Dunn

If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!

Dennis Kucinich

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

Dennis Miller

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Dennis Bergkamp

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

Kevin Brownlow

I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

Chris Frantz

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.

Tina Fey

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

Josh Blaisdell

We're excited. It's Christmas vacation and all we have to worry about is hockey.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Alain de Botton

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Charles Kingsley

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Bill Hybels

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Andrew McCarthy

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

Callie Khouri

'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

John McEnroe

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Joe Manchin

We're still sitting down in Houston. He (Perry) wants us to try to take these people, ... Every governor is getting frustrated, We will help if they'll just let us.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Joe Browne

Nobody's going to do anything until the governor is consulted.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

Al Franken

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Charles Babbage

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Katia Winter

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Jamie Zawinski

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

Alan Furst

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

Ricky Gervais

Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.

Chris Swecker

It is a pervasive problem and it's on the rise.

Carl Whitehead

This is unfortunately a serious problem. It is a pervasive problem.

Elizabeth Warren

There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.

Beth Givens

It just points out how pervasive these security breaches are.

Bill Maris

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

David Walliams

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Frederic Bastiat

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Arthur Koestler

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.