Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Alan Ball

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Al Pacino

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bill Forsyth

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Larry Meyers

When I was in politics I had no problem making decisions, ... In fact, I was overly vocal many times and never hesitated to let people know where I stood, because I think that?s part of being honest in politics.

Steve Grossman

Tom Reillys case to the people of Massachusetts does not rest on where he stands on one particular issue or another. It rests on his integrity, honesty, and a hundred-percent commitment to giving the people of Massachusetts a full days work for a full days pay.... He is as honest as the sun, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him.

Abby Waner

Whenever she does say something, you know that she means it because she's not yelling every single play. If we're down and she pulls the team together and says, 'We're going to do this, this and this, and we're going to win this game,' you honestly buy into it because it's credible. She doesn't just talk to talk.

Ayman Nour

We found in this long journey in a short time a great capacity for honesty, a great solidarity from the people for the Egyptian program for change, for the Egyptian program to reform this nation,

Trevor Pryce

We got to where we wanted to get, we got the first-round bye, we beat up New England pretty good. We can take solace in that, but honestly to do what we did the first week in the playoffs and to play like we did today, it's not pretty.

William Story

What looks like swindling with a petty sum, Is on a grand and speculative scale Honest enough, so it be large enough.

Ken Hitchcock

We?re going to have to make some adjustments. We honestly don?t know how this is going to work for us until we play some exhibition games.

Sam Bertsch

With their style of play a big lead can be gone pretty quick, and to be honest I think we were running out of gas towards the end. Fortunately, we had enough to finish things off.

Jamie Pollard

We're extremely disappointed that our institution has been cast in a negative light as a result of our men's basketball scheduling practices the past three years. I honestly believe that Iowa State University did not knowingly do anything wrong as it relates to scheduling these non-conference games.

David Kendall

We respectfully object to the committee's broad request for all information concerning all persons who have contributed or pledged more than $5,000 to the foundation. There are serious and substantial legal, precedential and public policy issues raised by this catch-all request.

John Thomas

We find it disturbing that the networks in question seem to have no problem exploiting gay persons through mindless comedies or titillating dramas, but when it comes to a church's loving welcome of committed gay couples, that's where they draw the line.

S. Walker

We're going to continue to target locations of concern in regards to auto burglary. We're currently in the process of carrying out some specific operations in regards to both prevention and apprehending the person or persons responsible.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Chin-Ning Chu

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Cher

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

Charlotte Lennox

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.