Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Michael Scott

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Billy Collins

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Fay Weldon

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Virginia Postrel

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

E. Hicks

When we pulled out on Wednesday, the military had pretty much taken over the area. There were even officers from NYPD and LAPD so the security was really tightening down.

Dick Cheney

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Dick Cheney

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Dick Cheney

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

Dick Cheney

We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Dick Cheney

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

Val McDermid

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

Bud Selig

Frankly, there is nothing for me to comment. I'm sure Senator Mitchell and his staff are monitoring everything every closely.

Morrie Schwartz

Do you prefer Mitch, or is Mitchell better?

John Brady

You say they took Darrel Mitchell out. We took out Green. That's pretty much a tradeoff.

Gideon Meir

What we saw tonight in Tel Aviv was the Palestinian response to the Mitchell report,

Otis Rush

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.