Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marci Hamilton

The poll numbers are bad. Katrina is added to other failures. The moderate choices look better politically,

Lawrence Summers

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

Sharon Treat

The overall trend for many years now is that drug prices go up substantially more than the rate of inflation, and that continues to be the case. Even though it's up less than in the previous quarter, it is still a substantial increase, and this is added on to increases from previous quarters.

David S. Goyer

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

Victoria Strauss

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

Emma McLaughlin

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.

Cliff Stearns

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

David Suzuki

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

Clint Eastwood

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

Mother Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Bryce Fisher

We play hard and we hit hard. We get paid to hit people. That's the way it works. But we still haven't scratched the surface. We have to play at that level that Tampa Bay played at year in and year out. And Baltimore. That's the level we want to be.

Vinny Testaverde

My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

Mitch Kapor

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Nicole Eggert

The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.

Adam Lechner

We definitely came in here thinking we owed these guys. They got us twice last year. It's a heated rivalry. It's the best of the East Bay versus the best of San Francisco and the Peninsula. We came out ready.

Wayne Graham

We are happy enough with how things have gone, but Bay of Plenty were semi-finalists last year and they will give us a stern work out, ... None of us have forgotten what happened last year. They gave us a real hiding and we know we are going to have to be at our best to beat them.

Sal Albanese

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Mitch McConnell

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

Brad Coker

The overall leads and sizes of the leads haven't changed all that much, which tells me that, other than real-interested, more-tuned-in voters, the large majority of voters haven't paid all that much attention.

Andrew Gibson

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is now viewed in a far more strategic light.

Brooke Smith

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Bee Wilson

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bruce Jackson

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Beeban Kidron

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Dom DeLuise

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Nicki Minaj

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

Bob Nelson

We played well in the first half, but in the second they hit their shots and we didn't and we also had some turnovers. They had a couple pretty good shooters who hit from the outside.

Ed DeChellis

We played well enough to win, but in the last couple of minutes, we didn't execute. Strickland made some big shots. ... He was guarded, but that's what seniors do.

Darren Sharper

We played well early on. The first couple of drives, we knocked them out. But we got a little worn down as the first half went along.

Mike Ford

We played well defensively. We had a couple of breakdowns, and they capitalized on them.

Theo James

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

Jerry Davis

We played well in transition tonight. And did a good job forcing turnovers, too.

Rachel Cusk

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

Dwane Casey

Would I love to have them? Yes, but I understand injuries, and there's no use in forcing it or taking any chances.

Nick Bollettieri

She wants to play. No one's forcing her.

Andy Landers

We did a good job with our press, not so much forcing turnovers but controlling the tempo.

Marie Lu

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Mark Mugiishi

Can it get any closer? And they miss forcing us into a second overtime by .1 of a second.

Sherwood Schwartz

Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Gary Christian

The pin placements were very hard, ... The greens were actually a little softer today, but the pins and the wind made them tougher. I knew there weren't going to be any 65s today.

Denis Napthine

The Greens simply don't understand that a strong economy is the key to a better Victoria for all Victorian families.

Fred Schneider

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

Le Corbusier

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

Brian Cox

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

Anne Donovan

We relied too much on Lauren in the first half. We made sure (Betty) knew she had the green light. Her second half was the difference.

Blake Lively

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

Brian Kelly

We need to keep our head down and keep digging. We'll just ride this wave out and take it to Green Bay.

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Anthony D'Angelo

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Alan Cohen

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Leona Lewis

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Walter Benjamin

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Walter Benjamin

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Bill Gillette

We never had a waiting list for people who wanted to be on the board. We needed more people to come to the table and have everyone's ideas heard.

Ludwig von Mises

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Cheryl Cole

I don't think I'm a style icon, not at all. Sometimes I just want to rock out in me scruffs and me Uggs. You know, a really comfy old tracksuit with maybe a dollop of ketchup down the front.

Paul Merton

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

Even Pellerud

We played another solid game. Maybe more solid than spectacular.

Terry Gilliam

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.