Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Osborne

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Marc Morial

A great American city is fighting for its life.

David Keller

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

Michael Stern

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Mike Woods

Life in the city is schedule after schedule.

Jennifer Post

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Dennis Kucinich

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Dennis Kucinich

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Debbie Johnson

We are not anti-union, but we are working to protect the rights of our employees. We just want them to use fair tactics.

Jerry Ragland

We did not get a fair trial up there, period.

David Walliams

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

Ato Boldon

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Dierks Bentley

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

Diego Maradona

Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!

Diego Maradona

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Diego Maradona

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football

Diego Maradona

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

Diego Maradona

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

Diego Maradona

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Shane Warne

When we go to South Africa, it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and try to nail us down.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Gary Sinise

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Trent Johnson

We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game.

John Bolton

whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to U.S. interests.

Trent Johnson

We're going into one of the more hostile environments we've seen all year. I'm impressed with Missouri State's team, with how physical they play.

D.J. Shockley

It was a hostile situation and we weren't sure how everything was going to go, but I wanted to play well and get us the win,

David Hoffman

It suggests that he's not particularly hostile to securities plaintiffs and many judges are.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Tim Halstead

Our intentions are to someday have a property.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Angelo Bitsis

We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Al Davis

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Al Davis

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

We would rather be feared than respected.

Brett Favre

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Brett Favre

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

Brett Favre

Every day is not perfect.

Brett Favre

Wisconsin's a special place.

Brandon Jacobs

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

Anthony Romero

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out — whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Brinkley

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Audre Lorde

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Arthur Rimbaud

What am I doing here?

Arne Jacobsen

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Denise Levertov

we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....

Deborah Moggach

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Lykke Li

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

David Walker

Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Robertson

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

David Hyde Pierce

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

David Horowitz

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

David Hobson

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

David Brinkley

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.