Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bradley

I invented it, Bill made it famous.

Eric Raymond

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

Denis Leary

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Kid Nichols

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

Kevin Love

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.

Kevin Love

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

John P. Kotter

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

Charles Schumer

When you put together a prescription drug bill that puts the pharmaceutical and insurance industry first, and the recipients way down at the bottom, of course you're going to get one big mess. And we have it.

Seth Shostak

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

David Duval

A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

Audre Lorde

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Audre Lorde

Without community, there is no liberation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Troy Newman

We also want to give the women driving up from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma about 2 ½ hours to think about what they're doing, and maybe change their minds. People come from all over the United States to have abortions here.

Mack Brown

We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It's only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Jerry Reighard

We also sent a message to Kent State with our performances. We have changed since the last time we faced them. We've earned a lot of respect from the conference.

Dennis Hastert

When you really look in depth, the reason we're losing people offshore is the inequity of our tax code as compared to our competitors overseas,

Kevin Mitnick

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.

Reggie Watts

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.

Nick Kinsella

The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than what it actually is; a code of conduct.

David Harris

We have a policy that's essentially a children's allowance, but because it's administered through the tax code it leaves out those who need it most.

Tom DeLay

My friends, I have violated no law, no regulation, no code of ethics and no House rule, ... I am innocent and I will prove it.

Rob Young

many homes were rebuilt right after Camille in the late '60s and '70s when the codes weren't that great. A lot of them were poorly constructed again.

Lisa Wright

She's been in code enforcement between five and seven years, I believe. Millie has been a godsend, someone who has always been trustworthy, and you knew when something needed to be done, if you gave it to Millie, it would be done, and it would be done right.

Patrick Miller

We let up on the dress code a little during homecoming week for those special theme days, ... They know our focus even this week will still be on education. The tests don't stop just because it's homecoming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Merv Adams

We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.

Les Morris

We always did say we were going to look at the fountain and see if we can keep it. If not, we were committed to a water structure.

Diablo Cody

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

DeForest Soaries

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

Dennis Anderson

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

Alan Cumming

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Al Gore

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

Kevin Cramer

I enjoy the debate... I haven't met a single person in Congress yet that I dislike. It's not about moderating your views: it's about being able to talk about them and defending them in a way that's uplifting to people.

Craig Fields

Whenever you see groups on the far left and the far right joining together over what Congress is getting ready to do, it's my experience that whatever Congress is getting ready to do is generally unconstitutional.

Hilary Clinton

When the NRA says jump, too many members of Congress say, 'How high?'

Robert Kagan

Were Congress somehow to reject the Administration's deal in some effort to maintain a consistent principle on non-proliferation, it would have no effect on Iran's decisions. But that futile gesture would have a devastating effect on US relations with India.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Bill Burton

Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.

Gary Ruskin

Leadership by example has never been a forte of the United States Congress. We see more of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' This is just another example.

Elliott Abrams

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Pierre McGuire

Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Kevin McDonald

We had been talking with Sen. Sears about malpractice reform. The driver is safety, not economics ? we want to create an environment to encourage internal reporting.

Toni Varacchi

We had a very poor shooting percentage. We created a lot of scoring opportunities but couldn't put many of them on the board.

Emanuel Brown

When I got there last year he was mostly a low post player, but watching him in practice I knew he could play outside and he was the type of player who could create his own shot, so this year we moved him outside.

Chris Davies

When their competitors have a good story to tell about how they're managing greenhouse gas emissions, I think it creates pressure to have a good story themselves.

Tawakkol Karman

Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

Tyra Banks

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

Tom Shadyac

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Octavio Paz

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Takeru Kobayashi

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

Aaron Lazar

Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

Tom Stoppard

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Lester B. Pearson

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Oleg Cassini

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Karen Joy Fowler

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Al Franken

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Al Franken

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Al Gore

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Al Gore

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Jan Brewer

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Vladimir Kozhin

The public can and should speak up, but the president will make a decision, because this is a unique compound.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Grady Fuson

Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Andrew Friedman

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

David Walker

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

David Walton

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

David Remnick

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

David Horowitz

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

David Hilbert

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

David Icke

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

David Icke

So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

David Hockney

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

David Hockney

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.